Tag: Sicily

A Food Tour is an Ideal Way to See Catania

If they say that food is a window to a culture, then a food walking tour in Catania gives us great insight into Sicily. In my view, Catania is an ideal place to do a food tour as I think its fish market is more interesting than Palermo's Vucceria Market and the city is also a bit smaller so the key sites can also be seen along the way. We booked our food tour through Streaty, which I think has put together a nice three hour program in Catania. Highlights included a visit to Catania's Duomo,...

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Ragusa’s Duomo Ristorante is the One Fine Dining Meal to Savour in Sicily

Nestled in the baroque hilltop town of Ragusa sits Duomo Ristorante, which I think is the one fine dining stop to make in all Sicily.  Chef-owner Ciccio Sultano and his wife Gabriella are gracious hosts and passionate about sharing the cuisine of the area from which they both hail from. The Michelin two-starred restaurant is said arguably to be the best in Sicily and definitely worth a visit. As you would expect, the dishes are built on Sicilian specialties utilising well known...

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Great Casual Meals in Sicily

A big part of the fun of traveling in Sicily is the good food at affordable prices. The wealth of quality produce grown, farmed and fished on and around the island itself means that ingredients are fresh and so the simplest preparation is going to be the best way to highlight the flavours. The following is a small list of some good, casual and reasonably priced eateries that I would go back to again and again. They are dotted around the island.

Solicchiatta (Mt Etna area) - Cave...

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A Soggy Sicilian Ramble on Mt Etna

I had visions of flying my drone to film sweeping panoramas as we hiked along Mt Etna's crater but alas, bad weather meant I settled for some misty photos and a soggy but still enjoyable ramble. Sicily equals sunshine unless you happen to visit during a week long rainstorm, which I'm assured is unusual. So, just our luck but we didn't let it dampen on our day out to Mt Etna too much. What helped was having a very good guide who led us through the forest to lava caves, gave a lesson in...

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Sicily – Road Trip from Palermo to Catania

View of Mt Etna at sunrise from the roof of the UNA Hotel Palace in Catania

The scenic route between Palermo and Catania this past April, gave us a chance to enjoy more of Sicily's rural scenery. Although taking the SS120 was not wholly our choice but due to a landslide that damaged the A19 expressway linking the two cities, it nonetheless worked out fine for us. We savored the area's famous fungi over lunch at Ristorante Veneziano in Randazzo near Mt. Etna. And once in Catania, we took a morning walk to its main fish market.

So it was much longer ride of...

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